Violence
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Peat often mentions how most plants are undigestible due to their own protective mechanisms they they have evolved to protect themselves from being grazed on and so on. These mechanisms supposedly manifest themselves in the plants being nutritionally weak, hard to extract nutrients from, or releasing antinutrients or toxins that are detrimental to the organism of the animal consuming it.
What I'm thinking is how little sense this makes. If i need a scientific lab analysis in order to establish those mechanisms, then obviously the mechanisms are a major fail and they don't do what Peat claims should be their purpose. If i eat a bunch of kale i will never know its not really good for me in the long run. Lets say i may feel like ***t eventually, but will hardly attribute that to the kale, and the machanism did nothing for the poor kale either. Its gone.
Im mentioning this because a lot of Peats anti vegie theories are built on this shaky and fairly laughable premise.
What I'm thinking is how little sense this makes. If i need a scientific lab analysis in order to establish those mechanisms, then obviously the mechanisms are a major fail and they don't do what Peat claims should be their purpose. If i eat a bunch of kale i will never know its not really good for me in the long run. Lets say i may feel like ***t eventually, but will hardly attribute that to the kale, and the machanism did nothing for the poor kale either. Its gone.
Im mentioning this because a lot of Peats anti vegie theories are built on this shaky and fairly laughable premise.